# standa
## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse standa, from Proto-Germanic *standaną, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstanta/
* Rhymes: -anta

### Verb

standa (third person singular past indicative stóð, third person plural past indicative stóðu, supine staðið)
* to stand

#### Usage notes

* standa í gerð - be under construction

#### Conjugation
## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse standa. from Proto-Germanic *standaną. Cognate with Faroese standa, English stand, Danish stande, Norwegian Nynorsk standa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstanta/
** Rhymes: -anta

### Verb

standa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative stóð, third-person plural past indicative stóðu, supine staðið)
* (intransitive) to stand (up), to be standing
* (intransitive) to stand, to be situated
* (intransitive) to stand, to be valid
** Isaiah 40 (Icelandic, English)
    Heyr, einhver segir: "Kalla þú!" Og ég svara: "Hvað skal ég kalla?" "Allt hold er gras og allur yndisleikur þess sem blóm vallarins. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, þegar Drottinn andar á þau. Sannlega, mennirnir eru gras. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, en orð Guðs vors stendur stöðugt eilíflega."A voice says, "Cry out." And I said, "What shall I cry?" "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."
* (intransitive) to last, to endure
* (intransitive) to be written somewhere, to say, to read (to indicate in a written form)
    Hvað stendur á skiltinu? ― What does the sign say?
* (impersonal) to cause to have an erection [with dative ‘someone’] (idiomatically translated as "have an erection" with the dative object as the subject)
* (mediopassive) to withstand; hold up to [with accusative ‘something’]
    að standast freistingar ― to resist temptation
    að standast skoðun ― to hold up to scrutiny

#### Derived terms

* eins og nú standa sakir
* láta hendur standa fram úr ermum
* standa á sama
* standa eins og stafur á bók
* standa straum
* standa upp

### Anagrams

* andast

## Latin
### Participle

standa
* inflection of standus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Participle

standā
* ablative feminine singular of standus

### References

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “standa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
* standa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²stɑndɑ/

#### Verb

standa (present tense stend or stender, past tense sto or stod, past participle stade or stadi, present participle standande, imperative statt)
* to stand; (pre-2012) alternative form of stå

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstɑndɑ/

#### Noun

standa n
* definite plural of stand

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* stonda

### Verb

standa
* to stand

#### Descendants

* North Frisian: stun, stuun, stönje
* Saterland Frisian: stounde

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *standaną. The verb occurred in two forms within Germanic, but only this form is attested in Old Norse sources. In the east, this form existed side by side with unattested *stá (from which Swedish stå), from Proto-Germanic *stāną. Both ultimately derive from the same Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

### Verb

standa
* to stand

#### Derived terms

* staðna (back-formed from the past participle)

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: standa
* Faroese: standa
* Norwegian Nynorsk: stande, standa (non-standard since 2012), stå
* Old Swedish: standa
** Swedish: stånda (poetic), stå
* Old Danish:
** Danish: stande (poetic), stå
*** Norwegian Bokmål: stå

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “standa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
* standa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse standa, from Proto-Germanic *standaną, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

### Verb

standa
* to stand

#### Descendants

* Swedish: stå